American Quotes

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

I write in American slang.

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.